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What the Sylvan Rocks Climbing Crew doing this time of year?
Matt is saving the youth of South
Dakota by working at the local Corrections facility here in Custer, and
seems
to be adjusting well, but said its interesting to go from having a job
where
you want everyone to like you to a job where you really don't want
anyone to
like you. Along with a new puppy and a new house, the winter is going
fast. We are both just hoping to get more ice formed up to go out and
use our new Black Diamond Ice Axes...gotta love new toys ya know
Lindsay has moved back up to the
northern Black Hills and is impatiently waiting on snow to come to her beloved Terry
Peak so she can get back to taking care of broken skiers and teach snow
boarders to ride. To bid her time she is
searching for a publisher to print her book about climbing all the first
ascents of Jan and Herb Conn.
Along with some great photos, she has put together a wonderful tale of Black Hills lore and rock climbing adventure.
Chris is enjoying some serious slack
time in Hill City.
After living in the outdoors all summer and fall, he is enjoying having
walls around him and a roof overhead. We
hope he isn’t spending to much time on the new laptop, but has admitted that he
might know a thing or three about the darn things and even been know to play a
few computer games long into the night. He plans to start Ski Patrol at Terry Peak soon as the snow gets deep enough.
Peter bops back
up to the northern hills as well, and is planning some great winter ski trips
in the next few months. In the mean time
he gets out on the ice when he can.
Seems to be “back on the horse” after a fall that broke his ankle last
winter. The ice screw worked though…and
we are all thankful for that.
Cheryl took a great climbing trip to the California this fall
with a good climber girlfriend. They tore up some routes in Tolmne
Meadows above Yosemite Valley in CA, clipped some bolts in the Owens
River Gorge, and enjoyed some alpine climbing in the Eastern Sierra's.
With a new pair of Ice boots on the way, she hopes to keep cranking all
winter and perhaps enjoy a month in Argentina this winter. Other then
that, it business as usual as a Forest Service Botanist.
Cindy is spending
the first winter in many years around the Black Hills, rather then at her place
in Mexico. Kids, school, the whole bit…she is a true
renaissance woman!! She did mention
something about having to go put up a few new routes though.
Sue, after much
hemming and hawing, left town to follow a sexy man to Reno, and we’ve not heard much so assume she
must be enjoying a whole new life. After
spending so much time and energy here in the Hills, it was a BIG step for her,
and we wish her all the best.
Me (Daryl) is
living the life in a beautiful home built by the late great Loretta Muehl. I spend a little too much time fighting with
computer world, but enjoy getting out to do some serious mountain biking, rock
and ice climbing. Did manage to put up a
new 3 pitch route in the Needles with Matt which was a whole lot of fun. I have been meeting with some folks to figure
out how to farm a large amount of ice on the big rock mass that makes up the
damn of Sylvan Lake… so if that happens, you are all
invited out to swing some tools into the ice.
If anyone knows how to organize such an thing, and keep the lawyers from
having a hay day…please give me a call.
For those of you who stayed at Devils Tower Lodge, and met Frank, you probably know he is staying
at the Lodge all winter on his quest to be on the tower every day for a
year. His SACRED TO MANY PEOPLE (A Year
of Climbing and Sharing). A.K.A."PROJECT 365" is put together to
raise awareness and funds for the American Indians, many of who hold the Tower
sacred. He says he is leaning every day
and happy to be at his beloved ‘Tower
of Power” and hoping to
do a few good things for others along the way.
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